1 Maccabees 13:32-34

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³² and became king in his place, putting on the crown of Asia, and he brought great calamity on the land.^{(A) 33} But Simon built up the strongholds of Judea and walled them all around, with high towers and great walls and gates and bolts, and he stored food in the strongholds.^{(B) 34} Simon also chose emissaries and sent them to King Demetrius with a request to grant relief to the country, for all that Trypho did was to plunder.^(C)